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Bringing the Receipts: the Major National Security Risks if Muslim Brotherhood Supporter Abdul El-Sayed is Elected to the Senate · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with
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  Speaker 2: you as well. It is nice to have you with
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  Speaker 2: us wherever you are around the country. And Senator, we've
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  Speaker 2: got one story we're going to cover today, and it's
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  Speaker 2: all El-Said and his connections to shady characters and organizations,
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  Speaker 2: including the Muslim Brotherhood. But he says he has no
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  Speaker 2: connections at all.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Ben, I think today's podcast is an important podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I have said for a long time, the two most
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  Speaker 1: dangerous candidates running in the country today are are Abdul
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  Speaker 1: El-Sayed in Michigan and James Tallarico in Texas. Now, we've
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  Speaker 1: covered James Tallarico quite a bit. He's an extreme candidate.
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  Speaker 1: We'll continue covering him up till and hopefully no longer
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  Speaker 1: after Election Day. But today, we're going to do a
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  Speaker 1: deep dive into Abdul El-Sayed, and in particular, what I
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  Speaker 1: think is a real and acute national security risk. Abdul
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  Speaker 1: El-Sayed could win. The polls coming out of Michigan show
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  Speaker 1: the race roughly tied. There have been polls that show
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  Speaker 1: him ahead. There are polls that show him slightly behind.
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  Speaker 1: If he wins, I believe that poses an unprecedented national
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  Speaker 1: security risk. Abdul Al-Sayed, Chuck Schumer could place him on
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  Speaker 1: the Senate Intelligence Committee. Understand the way the United States
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  Speaker 1: Senate operates. There is no separate security clearance for a senator.
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  Speaker 1: The fact of getting elected to the United States Senate
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  Speaker 1: gives you clearance. And Abdul Saeed, I believe, the overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: evidence indicates, has been a lifelong supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood,
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  Speaker 1: a terrorist organization responsible for murdering countless Americans. And I
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  Speaker 1: believe if Abdul El-Sayed is elected and if he is
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  Speaker 1: appointed to committees like the Senate Intelligence Committee or the
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  Speaker 1: Senate Armed Services Committee that have access to classified information,
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  Speaker 1: that poses an acute risk that U.S. servicemen and women
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  Speaker 1: will be killed and that intelligence assets, U.S. intelligence assets
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  Speaker 1: abroad will have their lives endangered. We're going to lay
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  Speaker 1: out the evidence. This is not... This is not a
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  Speaker 1: podcast where we're going to use a whole lot of adjectives.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to use a whole lot of hyperbole. We're
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  Speaker 1: simply going to walk through the evidence. Because this is important,
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  Speaker 1: I think, for the people of Michigan, that they do
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  Speaker 1: not want a radical Marxist Islamist as their senator. But
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  Speaker 1: it is important to all 50 states that we not
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  Speaker 1: have a member of the United States Senate who, by
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  Speaker 1: virtue of that election, has access to classified materials for
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  Speaker 1: whom he There is an unacceptable risk that Senator will
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  Speaker 1: pass on classified materials to terrorists who want to murder us.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to lay out the facts, let you decide.
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  Speaker 2: Life at aul.org slash verdict. All right, Senator. So I
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  Speaker 2: want to go back to one of the very interesting
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  Speaker 2: and unique things about the Senate that has really been
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  Speaker 2: mentioned by some, but very much overlooked in the reporting.
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  Speaker 2: And that is if you become a United States senator,
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  Speaker 2: there is not a mechanism from what I understand. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you, you're in the Senate. to say to someone, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you can't get classified information. If you're a senator, you
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  Speaker 2: automatically get access to it, especially if you're on one
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  Speaker 2: of these committees as you described it. And if there
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  Speaker 2: is someone in the U.S. Senate that, again, heaven forbid,
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  Speaker 2: is an actual threat to our national security the way
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  Speaker 2: that you're describing it with El-Said and his connections, how
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  Speaker 2: in the world did we get to a point where
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  Speaker 2: this could become a real reality?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's the reality that senators, when they are elected,
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  Speaker 1: they don't go through security clearance. There's no process to
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  Speaker 1: vet them. The fact that the voters of their state
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  Speaker 1: sent them to the Senate, that they were in a
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  Speaker 1: constitutional office, gives them security clearance under the law. And
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  Speaker 1: each party assigns committees differently. The Democrat Party gives that
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  Speaker 1: authority to Chuck Schumer. The most sensitive committee in terms
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  Speaker 1: of intelligence information is the Senate Committee, the Senate Select
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  Speaker 1: Committee on Intelligence. That is appointed by the leaders. So
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer, if he wanted, could put El-Said on the
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  Speaker 1: Intelligence Committee. And by the way, I think there would
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  Speaker 1: be real pressure from the far left to do so.
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  Speaker 1: And on the Intelligence Committee, he would have access to
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  Speaker 1: the most sensitive intelligence we have. Intelligence that goes to
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  Speaker 1: sources and methods. that goes to potentially uncovering undercover assets,
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  Speaker 1: assets that we may have covertly with the Muslim Brotherhood,
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  Speaker 1: with other terrorist organizations. You know, the CIA sends human
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  Speaker 1: operatives in to go undercover, to pretend to infiltrate terrorist
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  Speaker 1: organizations and to try to give us information to prevent
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  Speaker 1: terrorist attacks before they occur. That information is not widely available,
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  Speaker 1: but the Senate Intelligence Committee... By the way, the Senate
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  Speaker 1: Intelligence Committee has jurisdiction over the CIA... the NSA, the
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  Speaker 1: Central Security Service, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Bureau of
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  Speaker 1: Intelligence and Research, and the intelligence branches of all of
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  Speaker 1: the divisions of the U.S. military. The Intelligence Committee was
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  Speaker 1: established in 1976 after the Church Committee found evidence of
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  Speaker 1: spying on American citizens and illegal wiretapping. And the official
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  Speaker 1: duties of the Senate Intelligence Committee are to, quote, oversee...
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  Speaker 1: and make continuing studies of the intelligence activities and programs
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  Speaker 1: of the United States government and to, quote, submit to
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  Speaker 1: the Senate appropriate proposals for legislation and report to the
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  Speaker 1: Senate concerning such intelligence activities. Another purpose of the Senate
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  Speaker 1: Intelligence Committee is to, quote, provide vigilant legislative oversight over
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  Speaker 1: the intelligence activities of the United States to assure that
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  Speaker 1: such activities are in conformity with the Constitution and laws
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  Speaker 1: of the United States. The committee meets every Tuesday that
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  Speaker 1: the Senate is in session. They are generally closed meetings
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  Speaker 1: that are not public. They're classified. And senators, by virtue
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  Speaker 1: of being constitutional officers, quote, by tradition and practice, United
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  Speaker 1: States officials who hold positions prescribed by the Constitution of
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  Speaker 1: the United States are deemed to meet the standards of
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  Speaker 1: trustworthiness for eligibility for access to classified information. All senators
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  Speaker 1: have access to classified intelligence assessment, regardless of the committee
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  Speaker 1: you're on. However, quote, members are not inherently authorized to
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  Speaker 1: receive all classified information, but agencies provide access as is
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  Speaker 1: necessary for Congress to perform its legislative function. For example,
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  Speaker 1: to members of a committee or subcommittee that oversees classified
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  Speaker 1: executive branch programs. So, I have been, in my 14
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  Speaker 1: years in the Senate, I've been on the Senate Armed
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  Speaker 1: Services Committee, and I've also been on the Senate Foreign
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  Speaker 1: Relations Committee. Both of those committees regularly receive classified materials.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and I'm chairman
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  Speaker 1: of the Senate Commerce Committee. Both of those committees receive
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  Speaker 1: classified information as well, but the classified information you receive
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  Speaker 1: is within the jurisdiction of that committee. By far, the
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  Speaker 1: most sensitive is the Intelligence Committee, because that is engaging
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  Speaker 1: in oversight of covert activities. And it is the leaders.
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  Speaker 1: It is Chuck Schumer who could place Abdul Al-Sayed on
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  Speaker 1: the Intelligence Committee or the Armed Services Committee.
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  Speaker 2: And that was the question I was going to ask
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  Speaker 2: you is there's going to be people that say, well,
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  Speaker 2: hold on a second. You just don't let him get
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  Speaker 2: on the committee. This is nothing you have to worry about. So, like,
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  Speaker 2: why are you guys making a big deal out of it?
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  Speaker 2: That's how the media is going to talk about this.
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  Speaker 2: So let's debunk that right now. How do you get
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  Speaker 2: on these committees?
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  Speaker 1: Schumer decides it. Schumer puts you on it. It's very simple.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer puts you on it. There's no oversight. There's
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  Speaker 1: no control. Chuck Schumer has unilateral authority. He can place
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  Speaker 1: any Democrat senator on any committee he wants. That's how
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats do it. They give the minority leader, maybe
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  Speaker 1: even the majority leader, enormous authority. Now, I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the facts because El-Said was on a Sunday show.
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  Speaker 1: He was on Meet the Press this weekend, and he
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  Speaker 1: was asked about his connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to listen to what he said.
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  Speaker 3: For Michigan voters who are hearing those attacks against you,
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  Speaker 3: who are looking to separate fact from fiction, can you
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  Speaker 3: set the record straight about whether you or your family
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  Speaker 3: have any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?
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  Speaker 1: No, but let's talk about this.
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  Speaker 3: No, you don't have any ties.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: And your family doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Shocking part of that exchange is there is so much
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  Speaker 2: evidence that she could have used in her question to
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  Speaker 2: El-Saeed saying, there is evidence, there is reporting, there is
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  Speaker 2: documentation that you have these ties, the Muslim Brotherhood, through
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  Speaker 2: your sister, through your father-in-law. There's multiple ties, which we're
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  Speaker 2: about to lay out. But notice how Chris and Welker
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  Speaker 2: just said, do you have it? And he says, no.
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  Speaker 2: And she's like, okay, I've done my job. Like, there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing to talk about here. Let's move on with this.
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  Speaker 1: So understand, number one, What Abdul El-Sayed did right there
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  Speaker 1: is a lie. It is a flat-out, provable lie. And
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  Speaker 1: what Kristen Welker did is one of the greatest acts
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  Speaker 1: of journalistic malpractice I think we have ever seen. She
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  Speaker 1: did so knowingly. Tim Russert, who built his career on NBC,
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  Speaker 1: the same network on which she aired, Tim Russert has
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  Speaker 1: got to be spinning in his grave. Because what you
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  Speaker 1: just witnessed, what you just heard, that was not journalism.
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  Speaker 1: That was political propaganda. That was NBC saying, so a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are saying you're a terrorist. Are you
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  Speaker 1: a terrorist? Answer. No, I'm not a terrorist. Okay, good
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  Speaker 1: by me. You said no, we're all good. Next thing
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. That is literally what she did. So
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the evidence, because theoretically NBC is a
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  Speaker 1: news organization, not... a propaganda mouthpiece for Democrat candidates, although
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  Speaker 1: this interview, this interview, I actually think this interview should
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  Speaker 1: be taught in journalism classes if journalism classes actually were
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  Speaker 1: trying to train journalists. This is what not to do.
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  Speaker 1: So let's just start very basically. Abdul El-Sayed is lying.
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  Speaker 1: He says there is no evidence that I am connected
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  Speaker 1: to the Muslim Brotherhood or that my family is connected
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  Speaker 1: to the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, there's significant evidence that Abdul
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  Speaker 1: El-Seed is directly. But let's talk about the second part,
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  Speaker 1: his family. Do you know who disputes what he just said?
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  Speaker 2: His own family members.
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  Speaker 1: His sister. I want to read to you what she tweeted.
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  Speaker 1: This is her sister in a public tweet. On June 24, 2012,
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  Speaker 1: and this is right after Egypt elected the leader of
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Morsi, as its president. And she
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  Speaker 1: tweeted out, unhappy emoji, unhappy emoji, sh * *. My
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  Speaker 1: family has long been MB, Muslim Brotherhood, but I've always
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  Speaker 1: felt that it navigated the political sphere poorly, destructively. So
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  Speaker 1: that is his sister flat out saying, my family has
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  Speaker 1: long been Muslim Brotherhood. Abdul Al-Sid said, my family has
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  Speaker 1: no connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, if Christian Welker
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  Speaker 1: were a journalist, if Tim Russert were there, he would say,
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  Speaker 1: why did your sister tweet out that your family's long
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  Speaker 1: been Muslim Brotherhood?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he would have read the tweet the same way
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  Speaker 2: you just did to.
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  Speaker 1: Him after he denied it.
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  Speaker 2: He would have put it up on the screen.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: He would have said, you denied it, here's what your
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  Speaker 2: sister said.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, not only that, all right, not
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  Speaker 1: only that, his sister also tweeted on July 3rd, 2013,
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  Speaker 1: praying for all my family that supports the Muslim Brotherhood,
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  Speaker 1: the MB, in Egypt. Lie low, stay safe. So twice,
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  Speaker 1: she says, My family's long been Muslim Brotherhood, praying for
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  Speaker 1: all my family that supports the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, a
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  Speaker 1: real journalist would say, are you lying or was your
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  Speaker 1: sister lying? But that would require actual confronting with facts.
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  Speaker 1: All right, but let's talk, let's continue from there. So,
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  Speaker 1: his sister says their family has long been Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 1: What other evidence is there? Let's talk about Abdul El-Said himself.
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  Speaker 2: to what you just mentioned a moment ago, the direct
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  Speaker 2: evidence tying El-Sayed, his family, to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 1: Not his family, him. Abdul El-Sayed has previously and publicly
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  Speaker 1: advocated for the Muslim Brotherhood. He's authored numerous op-eds defending
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood, and he has explicitly supported the group's
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  Speaker 1: authoritarian tactics against both the media... and the police. In
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  Speaker 1: January of 2011, Abdul El-Sayed authored a robust defense of
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood in an op-ed for the Huffington Post
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  Speaker 1: that was entitled, quote, why the U.S. should support the
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  Speaker 1: protesters in Egypt. Now, mind you, the protesters were the
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  Speaker 1: Muslim Brotherhood. Writing, quote, even if the Muslim Brotherhood were
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  Speaker 1: to take power, The resulting state, he said, quote, would
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  Speaker 1: look nothing like Iran. He dismissed comparisons to Hamas. Hamas,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. And
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  Speaker 1: he later made the same case to President Obama and
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  Speaker 1: the Guardian. Likewise, on November 25, 2012, days after President
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  Speaker 1: Mohamed Morsi declared himself sweeping powers, Dr. Abdul Rahman El Said,
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  Speaker 1: of New York at the time, was the 33rd of
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  Speaker 1: 46 signers of an Arabic language letter on Al Aram Gate,
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  Speaker 1: an Egyptian news portal, stating, quote, we call on him
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  Speaker 1: to purge the media and the police as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 1: The letter also, quote, strongly rejected those voices that are
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  Speaker 1: courting America and Europe to take a position against the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptian regime. Co-signers of this letter included Khaled Lamada, a
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  Speaker 1: former chairman of Islamic Relief's U.S. branch, who has praised Hamas,
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  Speaker 1: and Akram Elzend and Sameh Elhanawi, whom Egypt's El-Watan listed
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  Speaker 1: as U.S.-based brotherhood cells.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: In the following months, at least six Egyptian reporters were
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  Speaker 1: charged with, quote, insulting Islam or, quote, insulting the president. So,
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  Speaker 1: Abdul El-Sayed, and by the way, where's Kristen Welker saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: why did you write in support of Mohammed Morsi, in
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  Speaker 1: support of the Muslim Brotherhood taking over Egypt? Why did
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  Speaker 1: you say they should purge the police and the press?
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  Speaker 1: She didn't ask any of that. Yeah. Not only that,
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  Speaker 1: do you know who Abdul El-Sayed's biggest donor is? Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about his campaign right now, because maybe you say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that was 2011, 2012, 2013, that was a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: He used to be Muslim Brotherhood, but he's changed. There's
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  Speaker 1: no evidence of that whatsoever that he's changed, but let's
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  Speaker 1: assume you think that. Who do you think is the
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  Speaker 1: biggest donor to the super PAC supporting Abdul El-Sayed's Senate
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  Speaker 1: campaign in Michigan right now?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to guess it's a group or someone that
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  Speaker 2: is directly tied or connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you would ding, ding, ding. You win $ 64, 000. His
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  Speaker 1: biggest donor is his father-in-law. Yep. his father-in-law, is Tayeb Jukaku.
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  Speaker 1: And Jukaku has served at least since 2007 on the
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  Speaker 1: 20-member founding committee of ISNA, the Islamic Society of North America,
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  Speaker 1: which the Holy Land Foundation prosecutors named as an unindicted
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  Speaker 1: co-conspirator and one of eight entities that are, quote, are
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  Speaker 1: and or were members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, committee members, like Jukaku, must give ISNA at
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  Speaker 1: least $ 5, 000 per year. Lorenzo Vedino, who's the director of
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  Speaker 1: the program on extremism at George Washington University, called the
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  Speaker 1: committee members, one of whom is Abdul El-Sayed's father-in-law and
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  Speaker 1: the largest owner of Super PAC, quote, the elders of
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  Speaker 1: the organization. Wow. Jukaku was also president of CARE Michigan
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  Speaker 1: from 2005 to 2010. He remains on its board today,
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  Speaker 1: and he was photographed in 2010 with CARE's Niwad Ahmad,
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  Speaker 1: the infamous CARE leader and the member of the 1993
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  Speaker 1: Palestine Committee, who declared he was, quote, happy to see Hamas, quote,
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  Speaker 1: break the siege on October 7th. Now, what has Jukaku done?
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  Speaker 1: He has given $ 300, 000 to Fighting for Michigan PAC, the
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  Speaker 1: largest outside group backing El-Sayed. He gave another $ 100, 000 on
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  Speaker 1: July 20th to the Unity in Justice Fund, a PAC
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  Speaker 1: launched by CARE Action in 2024 as part of its
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  Speaker 1: efforts to, quote, elevate the political influence of the Muslim
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  Speaker 1: community following October 7th. CARE denies creating or funding the
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  Speaker 1: Super PAC, although Ahwed said in 2024 that, quote, CARE
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  Speaker 1: has also created a Super PAC called Unity and Justice Fund.
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  Speaker 1: In the July 22nd, by the way, in the July
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  Speaker 1: 2026 debate, not very long ago, Representative Haley Stevens, mind you,
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  Speaker 1: a Democrat, charged that El-Said's, quote, father-in-law is running his
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  Speaker 1: super PAC. Now, where the heck is Kristen Welker if
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  Speaker 1: she can't even quote from the Democrat who El-Said narrowly
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  Speaker 1: beat in the primary and said, look, your father-in-law is
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  Speaker 1: running your super PAC? El-Said, to this day, maintains close
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  Speaker 1: financial ties with CARE. CARE is another unindicted co-conspirator in
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Land Foundation case, which, by the way, the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Land Foundation case resulted in convictions of funneling millions
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of dollars to Hamas and other terrorist organizations. The Unity
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  Speaker 1: in Justice Fund, launched by CARE Action, gave $ 175, 000 to
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the pro-El-Sayed PAC fighting for Michigan on July 21st, its
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  Speaker 1: largest single outlay to date. The Unity and Justice Fund
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: also paid a Dearborn consulting firm owned by the Dearborn
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  Speaker 1: Heights Mayor Chief of Staff $ 400, 000 for canvassing and claimed
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  Speaker 1: credit for assisting El-Sayed's one-point primary win while, quote, building
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  Speaker 1: a movement in masjids, which means mosques. CARES Executive Director
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  Speaker 1: Nihat Awad gave $ 750 directly to to El-Said's campaign. Current
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  Speaker 1: and former CARE employees have given more than $ 115, 000 to
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  Speaker 1: the campaign, according to Fox News. El-Said also maintains close
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  Speaker 1: ties with Islamic Relief USA, ERUSA, an outfit previously labeled as, quote,
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  Speaker 1: a prime example of brotherhood influence in the United States,
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  Speaker 1: and that was labeled by the House Oversight Committee. El-Said
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  Speaker 1: headlined four $ 100- ahead IRUSA cruise-for-a-cause fundraisers in Washington, Miami, Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: and New York between March 23rd and April 6th, 2019,
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  Speaker 1: posting that he was, quote, proud to be joining them.
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  Speaker 1: The House Oversight Committee in 2018 called IRUSA a, quote,
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  Speaker 1: prime example of brotherhood influence in the United States and
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Israel and in the United States, and Israel sanctioned its parent,
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  Speaker 1: Islamic Relief Worldwide, in 2014 for alleged Hamas support. Arusa, meanwhile,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: denies funding terrorist groups. Arusa's CEO, Ahmed Shehata, photographed at
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: a pro-brotherhood event under the group's Rabia symbol, gave $ 500
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  Speaker 1: to al-Said's Senate campaign. ARUSA director Issam Omaish gave $ 4, 350.
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  Speaker 1: Omaish is a former president of the Muslim American Society, a, quote,
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  Speaker 1: overt arm of the Brotherhood, per the House Oversight Committee.
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  Speaker 1: And Omaish has urged Muslims to embrace, quote, the jihad way.
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  Speaker 1: This year, not a long time ago this year, El Saeed,
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  Speaker 1: spoke at ISNA's national convention, hosted by one of the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: main Brotherhood groups to emerge from the Holy Land Foundation trial.
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  Speaker 1: He spoke at this convention just six days before the
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  Speaker 1: 25th anniversary of September 11th. His speech followed a montage
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  Speaker 1: in which Imam Siraj Wahaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: 1993 World Trade Center bombing, said, quote, America is going down.
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  Speaker 1: The montage closed on a photo of El-Said fist-bumping Hasan Piker,
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  Speaker 1: the ethnically Turkish influencer who stated that America, quote, deserved 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: His campaign has said he is not affiliated with and
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  Speaker 1: does not endorse other participants.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you go through this and you sit there
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  Speaker 2: and you say to yourself, was Kristen Welker basically a
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  Speaker 2: part of El Said's campaign strategy? Hey, let's sit down together.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have a conversation. I'm going to bail you out
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  Speaker 2: on this.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any leadership? Are there any executives at NBC?
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Is there anyone at Meet the Press who has a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: tiny bit of journalistic integrity? That's like an interview. Can
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: you imagine Meet the Press interviewing Al Capone? Hey, are
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you a mobster? Nope, not a mobster. Okay, good by us.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Capone says he's clean. NBC says it's all fine.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it is the exact I mean, it
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: would be like asking Adolf Hitler, did you gas the Jews?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: And he says no. And you're like, all right, even
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: though there's evidence that that is how absurd this moment
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  Speaker 2: was on Meet the Press. Yet it actually happened. And
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: you saw it was only what, 15 seconds long. It's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: But they did it because they wanted the narrative to
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  Speaker 2: get out there. that he is some sort of mainstream
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  Speaker 2: normal guy that has no connections to terrorism, no connections
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  Speaker 2: to radical extremist Muslim ideas, organizations, groups, and they wanted
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: to put it all to bed so he could finish
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  Speaker 2: out the campaign by saying, I'm just a normal guy
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: that just wants to represent America in Congress. Now, Senator,
• 26:21
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• 27:25
  Speaker 2: so let's get back into this story. And again, the
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: scary part is there's even more to this.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so in 2018, there was a documentary that showed
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: El-Said asking filmmakers to keep his living room bookshelf out
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: of the frame to, quote, keep the shot secular. So,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: now what do you think that bookshelf held that he
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: was trying to keep out of the documentary because he
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: didn't want people to see? By the way, this is
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: not just a book he had somewhere that he proudly
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: displays in his living room. Yeah. Well, it included works
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  Speaker 1: by Abu Aminah Bilal Phillips, who is a 1993 World
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  Speaker 1: Trade Center bombing unindicted co-conspirator. It also included books by
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Brotherhood member Mohammed Al Ghazali. a Jamaat al-Islami member, and
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: also by Shaqul Islam ibn Taimiyah, whose writings both Al-Qaeda
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and ISIS cite. His campaign later said, this was not
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Abdul's bookshelf. It was apparently another bookshelf someone smuggled into
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: his living room against his wishes. And they said, a
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: background book is, quote, not an endorsement. This is, again,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: apparently someone mysteriously is putting books in his living room. Now,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I want to stop and go back to a foundational question.
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  Speaker 1: The evidence is overwhelming that Abdul Al-Sayed is a supporter
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: of the Muslim Brotherhood, that his family, as his sister says,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: have long been Muslim Brotherhood supporters. But let's stop for
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a second and say, what is the Muslim Brotherhood? Should
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: we be worried? I mean, look, Brotherhood is nice, right?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with Brotherhood? So let's do a little bit
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: of background as to what the Muslim Brotherhood is. The
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Muslim Brotherhood, whose technical name is Al-Ikwan Al-Muslimun, is a transnational,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Sunni Islamist movement founded in Egypt in 1928 by schoolteacher
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Hassan al-Banna, whose stated aim was government by Sharia and
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: ultimately a global Islamic order. The Muslim Brotherhood's motto declares, quote,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the Quran is our constitution. Jihad is our way. Death
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: for the sake of Allah is our wish. Al-Banna's doctrine
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  Speaker 1: of tamkeen, which means empowerment, lays out a stage path
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  Speaker 1: for reforming individual Muslims to building loyal communities to taking
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  Speaker 1: state power. Brotherhood members assassinated Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud al-Nakrashi
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  Speaker 1: in 1948. and tried to kill Egyptian President Nasser in 1954.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: And the writings of Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb later supplied
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the theological framework for both Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: The theological framework. Let's say that just again. The theological
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: framework is one of the people involved in the Muslim
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Brotherhood for ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. The Brotherhood operates through national branches. that adopt their
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  Speaker 1: tactics to local conditions. Hamas is, by its own 1988 charter,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the Brotherhood's Palestinian branch. The Lebanese branch of the Muslim
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Brotherhood fought alongside Hezbollah. Qatar serves as the movement's chief
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  Speaker 1: state patron. In Egypt, the Brotherhood briefly held power under
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  Speaker 1: President Mohamed Morsi from 2012 to 2013. before he was
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  Speaker 1: removed and the group was banned as a terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 1: In the United States, the Brotherhood built a network of
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  Speaker 1: public-facing 501c3 and 501c4 organizations. In the Muslim Brotherhood's 1991
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  Speaker 1: explanatory memorandum, which was seized by the FBI and entered
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: into evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial, It describes
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: its U.S. mission, the U.S. mission of the Muslim Brotherhood, as, quote,
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  Speaker 1: a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the
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  Speaker 1: Western civilization from within. And it lists the Islamic Society
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  Speaker 1: of North America, which Abdul Al-Sayed's father-in-law was one of
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  Speaker 1: the founding members of, the Muslim Student Association, and the
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: North American Islamic Trust as among, quote, our organizations. This
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: is the Muslim Brotherhood saying these are our organizations. After
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  Speaker 1: Hamas's founding, and in an effort to derail the Oslo Accords,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the U.S. Brotherhood created a, quote, Palestine Committee in 1993.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: This group of Brotherhood officials raised money for Hamas under
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  Speaker 1: the banner of an American C3 known as the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Land Foundation. The Holy Land Foundation's leaders were convicted in
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: 2008 on all 108 counts of funneling roughly $ 12 million
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  Speaker 1: to Hamas, and prosecutors named Kerr and Isna and Nayet
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: as unindicted co-conspirators. A federal judge ruled in 2009 that
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: the government has produced, quote, ample evidence linking CARE, ISNA,
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  Speaker 1: and NAIT to the Holy Land Foundation and to Hamas.
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  Speaker 1: Since then, President Trump, via Executive Order 14362, has begun
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  Speaker 1: the process of designating certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign
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  Speaker 1: terrorist organizations and specially designated chapters. global terrorists. By the way,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: that's something I have been fighting for for years, to
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, which President
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Trump has taken major steps to do, and also designating
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: CARE as a terrorist organization, which has not happened yet,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: although the state of Texas has done so.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it amazing, Senator, that just you and I sitting
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: here can spend a half hour exposing exactly how he
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. But in 12 seconds,
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  Speaker 2: NBC News does the job for the entire media of
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: saying there is no Muslim Brotherhood there. There's no fire.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: There's no smoke. He already denied it. It's done. It
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: is fact. We can move on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but look, NBC is covering up for him, but
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: you don't see ABC covering this or CBS or CNN
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  Speaker 1: or MSNBC. None of them are covering this because at
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: this point, these are institutions where you've got many in
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: the leadership there want the Democrats to win. And listen,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I think the evidence is overwhelming that Abdul Al-Sayed's family
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: is directly connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, that they have
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: financial ties to the Muslim Brotherhoods, and that they have
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: been vocal supporters. If you do not believe me, believe
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: his sister who says, our family have long been Muslim Brotherhood.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: That's his own sister. And yet, Abdul Al-Sayed is lying
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: about it. By the way, the evidence is very clear
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: that Abdul Al-Sayed has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood. He
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: has written in support of the Muslim Brotherhood over and
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: over and over again. The largest donor to the super
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: PAC supporting his campaign is his father-in-law, who is a
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: founding member of an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Foundation case. The evidence is clear, and understand the threat.
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  Speaker 3: I want to.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Close where we started. If Abdul Al-Sayed wins, by virtue
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: of being a senator, he will have access to classified information,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: classified information about what the United States government is doing
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: to stop the Muslim Brotherhood, what the United States government
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: is doing to prevent terrorist attacks by the Muslim Brotherhood,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: to prevent terrorist attacks by the Muslim Brotherhood against the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: United States, against U.S. servicemen and women, against civilians in
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: American cities. And I believe if Abdul Al-Sayed has access
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: to that classified materials, that it will endanger the lives
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: of servicemen and women, American servicemen and women serving overseas,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: and that it will endanger the lives of U.S. intelligence
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: operatives serving overseas. This is a profound danger. And so, listen,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I hope Election Day is a great election where Republicans
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: keep the House and Senate, where we grow our majorities.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: That would be a very good outcome. Yeah. But what I...
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: pray is that at a minimum, Abdul Al-Said is not
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: elected to the Senate and James Tallarico in Texas is
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: not elected to the Senate. These two are radicals and
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: they're dangerous for our country and I hope that everyone
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: involved between now and Election Day does everything they can
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: to prevent that danger to our servicemen and women, our
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: intelligence operatives serving abroad and protecting this nation.
• 36:44
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• 36:46
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